I remember linear lists of 1000+ if-statements. These were "state machines", popular form of real-time multitasking 50 years ago. Nothing wrong with that. You m

I remember linear lists of 1000+ if-statements. These were "state machines", popular form of real-time multitasking 50 years ago. Nothing wrong with that. You might make an analyzer which recognizes longer series of events and impossible states, but why bother. This is a programming paradigm, best you can do is to go with the flow.